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The Morning Edge of Midnight: Stories
Includes the Novella, After Allyson by Earl S. Braggs
ISBN: 978-1-963695-47-2 paperback $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-48-9 ebook $9.99
March 17, 2026
A collection of magically real stories and a novella set in the American south.
Praise for The Morning Edge of Midnight: Stories
Only a poet of Braggs’ talent and sensibility could bring us stories of such lively language and lost-and-in-love characters. He tells their truths but tells them at a slant that is joyful to read and heartbreakingly beautiful to apprehend.
—Anthony Grooms, author of Bombingham and The Vain Conversation
Praise for Earl S. Braggs’ Poetry
What is and has always been needed is an honest, clear, loving voice. Earl Braggs’ Ugly Love (Notes from the Negro Side of the Moon) offers that. Pull up your favorite chair and cover your cold feet with your grandmother’s quilt and enjoy this wonderful read.—Nikki Giovanni
For a long time, I have not read such a passionately and gracefully written book of poetry as Earl S. Braggs’ House on Fontanka. Being an African American, he so deeply understands the suffering of Russia, as Pushkin’s grandson, inheriting Pushkin’s great gift of global compassion…. There is no guilt.—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Like Whitman, Braggs finds occasions for song everywhere. It is a rich, finely textured world full of surprises and insights. In Which Language Do I Keep Silent is a rich opportunity to experience this poet in all his powers.—James Tate
Crossing Tecumseh Street is lively, vocal, and laced with an intelligent sense of humor. I enjoyed these poems.—Billy Collins
“Hat Dancer Blue isn’t a conventional title for a book pf poetry, neither are these poems. For this writer, form comes from the outside in … strong stuff that matters, not the usual thing.—Marvin Bell
In Hats, Braggs powerfully bears testimony of the country’s disenfranchised in rolling headlong cadences that aspire to the incantatory. They also register leaping exuberance, joy, spiritual yearning, and the majesty of enduring.—Lynda Hull
Walking Back from Woodstock: No romanticism here, but a witnessing with wit and irony, with subtle wisdom that rises only out of the fire.—Christopher Buckley
Powered by an incantatory rhythm in the tradition of Whitman…, Braggs takes us across Crossing Tecumseh Street into a world of dazzling visions, enormous disappointment and guarded hope.”—Richard Jackson
Earl S. Braggs is the author of 14 books of poetry and a memoir, A Boy Named Boy. His website is earlsbraggs.com
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